Omaha daily bee., 1887-06-05
COSTUMES FOR SUMNER WEAR
What the Swell Girls Will Wear at Tuxedo
This Season.
THE NEW YORK GIRL IN CHURCH

Coming Events Which Cast Their
Shadows Before - Mrs. Tom
Thumb - Canoe Girls -
Clara Bellies Letter.
New YORK, June Al Correspondence
of the BEE. Now we have it, What?
Why, the positively correct costume for
summer wear at the summer resorts
where the ruralism is truly rural. Tuxedo
park IS q monarchy, as you know, where
the personality of the residents and
much of their behavior is arbitrarily set
tied by the exquisite board of managers.
1t Is no joke. nor even the slightest per-
version of the truth, to say that the Tux.
dress for feminine outdoor seekers after
summer Incidence or activity. Several
of the most intensely fashionable gar.
ment makers have got specifications right
headquarters, and so can tell you just
from about what the swell girls will wear
atTuxedo this season. The waist is to be a
blouse, the skirts undraped, and the waist
encircled by sash. The head covering
will be loose cap, that can be pulled
over the face enough to shade it from the
sun. The material will be knitted wool,
and the colors the brightest imaginable
i'll stripes alternating with grey, blue and
brown.
In the way of little things, yesterday
saw q close carriage drive up to the Bel
mont residence in Fifth avenue. There
was plenty of high style about the sleek,
opiritnH hnrSpa tho liveripI friVpr and
lackey, and the mirror.like blackness of
the polished vehicle; but those qualities
can now be had at the best livery stables,
and therefore they no longer indicate
ownership on the part of the OCCUPANTS.
What made me stop and covertly stare
was the emergence OF u three and a,half
foot lady, She was matronly in shape
and mein, her face was handsome as
forty-five, and her dress was the perfec-
ton of quiet fashion. Had my eyes sud.
denly become telescope wrong end to-
rubbed them, and looked again. BY that
time the lady in miniature was ascending
the Belmont steps. Then recognized
her.
SHE WAS MRS. TOM THUMB,
otherwise the Countess Nab M agre, who
had within three days arrived from Eu.
rope, and was making a round Of formal
calls. Mrs. Thumb has a considerable
circle of pretentiOus acquaintance in
New York, and she is very punctillious in
her attention to the usages of polite so.
ciety
went with country friend to Grace
church to observe the demeanor of the
fashionable girls who rendezvous there
of a Sabbath morning. We arrived just
as the organist began his voluntary, and
the pews were not half full. Moreover,
it looked as If there was not going to be
much of house, for few. people were
coming in: We sat for short time in a
pew at side that commanded view Of
the entrance. Others were there wait
ing for the ushers to find them better
seats. When the voluntary. was about
coming to an end, the pew holders began
to arrive. The girls rustled by in mag
niticent apparel, and every one of them
paused for an instant at the head of the
aisle, looking about the church before
she walked down to her pew. Each one
also carried an elegant edition of the
prayer book in her hands. The most
popular edition had gilt edged leaves.
blue back and blue border on
vellum covers. The rector and his as
sistants and choir marched in and the
stream of incoming pew holders IN
creased. The fashionable character of
the audience became more marked. A
typical pair of delightful and handsome
girls came in while the minister was en-
gagged In reading the service. They en-
tered at opposite sides of the vestibule,
recognizing each other and ran together
with resounding kiss that echoed its
way down the broad aisle and lost itself
IN the sounding board over the pulpit.
They held their prayer books daintily be.
fore them and chatted and smiled, and
rs they smiled each took rapid but keen
surveys of the others dress. Each was
blessed with an elegant figure and rich
papa, and there was little room for dis.
advantageous comparison one with the
other.
one.
Next week; when do you go9"
"Oh, we're going the day after to. NOR.
row, We shall go to Geneva IN July,
you know"
slow delighttuls we are going to Paris
about the same time. We must persuade
our papas to take the same steamer"
Then going to the baize doors that
opened upon the broad aisle, she peeped
through and whispered: II think there
arc strangers in our pew"
Never mind" said the other, "you
must sit with me-"
So they came in to the head Of the side
aisle. stood for u moment as the others
had done, and then walked about hall
way down the church to the pew. A
moment later the usher conducted MS to
apew near them. When they entered
their pew they
GAVE A SWING TO THEIR SKIRTS
to assure themselves that the tournurC
should come down right 1t was grace.
fully done. Then they inclined their
heads, one putting u velium covered
prayer book to her eyes. the other he
gloved fingers. prominent on which
gimmcred splendid pearl. A
friend in the front pew turned and kindly
showed them the place in the service Il